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Goodbye, Robinson Crusoe by John Varleyreviewed by Greg L. Johnson
Someone noticed, it seems, that there were a fair number of John Varley stories that were currently unavailable in
any collections. Coincidentally, the number of stories uncollected was just the right size to form a collection of their
own. The result is a collection that, while it might not be the best or even the best
known stories by him, nevertheless contains several examples of what made John Varley one of the most acclaimed
and influential writers of the 70s and beyond.

Red Lightning by John Varleyreviewed by Ernest Lilley
Ray Garcia-Strickland is a pretty typical teenager. Which is to say he's bored, bitching about it, and going no place in
particular. The fact that he lives on Mars and his folks pioneered interplanetary travel when they were about his age in
Red Thunder only makes things worse. From where he
stands, they don't look much like heroes; just a middle aged couple that's gradually growing apart. But when something
hits the Earth moving at a considerable fraction of the speed of light, stirring up a tsunami that wipes out the
entire East coast, he finds out what heroes really look like.

Red Thunder by John Varleyreviewed by Peter D. Tillman
A bunch of likeable Florida teens get together and build a homemade spaceship, a couple decades from
now, with the help of a cashiered NASA astronaut and his idiot-savant
cousin, Jubal, who has discovered a simple vacuum-energy shunt. With free,
unlimited energy, just about anything can fly, even a spaceship made of used railroad tank-cars...

Red Thunder by John Varleyreviewed by Cindy Lynn Speer
"How do we go about building a space ship on pocket change?" Four kids practically fresh out of high school, an astronaut who has
fallen out of grace and into the bottle, and a genius with the social skills of an armadillo are about to find out.
Manny, Dak, Alison and Kelly are driving along on the beach when they run over a man half buried in the sand. Thankfully, the sand
protected him, and they take the stone drunk gentlemen, Travis Broussard, home.

The Golden Globe by John Varleyreviewed by Thomas Myer
This novel is a picaresque tale in the finest tradition of that
venerable art form. You have your basic scoundrel Sparky
Valentine, former child star of the 23rd-century, who cons
a woman who happens to have connections with the Charonese mafia.
This combination in the hands of John Varley results in slick prose, great
pacing, and well-drawn characters.

The Golden Globe by John Varleyreviewed by Paul J. McAuley
Guest Reviewer Paul J. McAuley found it to be a relaxed, playful, virtuoso performance,
packed with incidents and wonders as casually deployed as scarves from a magician's hat.
The novel vividly evokes a Solar System where all history is, of necessity, as postmodern and
hyperreal as Disneyland. It never falters as the narrative moves from comedy to tragedy.